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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
Garry Winogrand
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Garry Winogrand
Age: 56 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 14
Died: 1984
Died: March 29
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing I'm not changing it.
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There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I don't go around looking at my pictures.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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